: a loud arrogant boaster
thinks he's a loudmouth braggart
braggart
adjective
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a braggart who was always talking about how much money he made
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Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Even aside from Trump’s own enthusiastic personal immorality and impiety, his political style — the pugnacious smear artist and demagogic braggart — was the antithesis of what evangelicals had sought before.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
Davis, who is seventy-eight, began to think of Carr, about two decades younger than him, as a bully and a braggart.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Thorpe is a braggart whose own extravagance is bolstered by imagining everyone else to be immensely wealthy.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Even aside from Trump’s own enthusiastic personal immorality and impiety, his political style — the pugnacious smear artist and demagogic braggart — was the antithesis of what evangelicals had sought before.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
Davis, who is seventy-eight, began to think of Carr, about two decades younger than him, as a bully and a braggart.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Thorpe is a braggart whose own extravagance is bolstered by imagining everyone else to be immensely wealthy.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Braggart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/braggart. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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